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Mars 'terror,' future Moon missions and an epic journey to the Sun: 2018ís year in space

Washington (UPI) Dec 7, 2018
NASA's newest Mars lander InSight is slowly readying itself for its scientific mission. The newest images captured by the lander's camera, and shared by NASA, showcase the spacecraft's robotic arm.
The robotic arm can be seen in a flexed position, poised to deploy some of InSight's instruments in the coming days.
One of those instruments is the craft's seismometer. Once deployed,